On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 1:43:58 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 3/3/2019 4:52 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > >> > Here's an example David Wallace presents (as an "outlandish" possibility): > Suppose in *pi *(which is computable, so has a *program* (a spigot one, > in fact) that produces its digits. Suppose somewhere in that stream of > digits is the Standard Model Equation > > (say written in LaTeX/Math but rendered here) > > https://www.sciencealert.com/images/Screen_Shot_2016-08-03_at_3.20.12_pm.png > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Fimages%2FScreen_Shot_2016-08-03_at_3.20.12_pm.png&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHE8XfpeGQ3w37URpIkaZkiJ2Jqug> > > So what could this mean? (He sort of leaves it hanging.) > > > Nothing. Given a suitable mapping the SM Lagrangian can be found in any > sequence of symbols. It's just a special case of the rock that computes > everything. > > Brent >
I guess the point is there is no point to a "law of nature" (e.g. the SM equation above consisting of on the order of 1000 unicode characters in source form). It just happens that it works in a narrow domain and that's all there is to it. - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
